Even if you haven’t personally seen it, chances are that you know someone who has seen the viral documentary film “Kony 2012” produced by Invisible Children Inc., a San Diego-based not-for profit organization. For those unfamiliar with it, the thirty-minute documentary film covers Invisible Children’s efforts to stop the Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph...
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The College Libertarians’ very own David Deerson was recently featured in New Voices, a Jewish student magazine, in an article that highlights libertarian-leaning Republican candidate Ron Paul’s broad appeal. It’s true that people of many different faiths are attracted to Paul’s commitment to individual rights and Golden Rule common sense that he would apply...
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Less than a day after falling four thousand votes shy of winning the Iowa Caucuses, Ron Paul is still hardly mentioned in the media. Third place is evidently not good enough to have your existence noted by American news and print media. But fourth, fifth and sixth places – the respective results of Gingrich,...
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They are at it again. The Neo-Cons of the Grand Old Party have decided to remind us that Iran and Islamists pose an existential threat to the United States of America. The lunacy went full throttle last Thursday during the Republican Presidential debate with GOP hopefuls scolding Iran in what can only be compared...
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Here is UNC-CH College Libertarians President Alexander Lopez’s take on the current Eurozone financial crisis, originally published in the Carolina Review : Not since World War II has Europe stood so closely to the precipice of calamity as they do now. Excessive amounts of sovereign debt in Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain (the...
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Much has been talked about lately concerning the Occupy movement and its participants’ relationship with the police. Across the country – from New York to Chicago to Oakland and places in between – occupiers have been arrested for their activities. Many of these charges relate to illegal camping in urban areas and blocking traffic;...
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In today’s Daily Tar Heel, my friend Price Clark skillfully took aim at the myopic and popular bemoaning of “money and politics” and highlighted the real underlying problem facing our political system: rent-seeking. He writes: “Rent seeking” is an attempt to derive economic wealth by manipulating the social and political environment rather than creating...
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Last week I wrote about the FDA’s undemocratic nature by how it takes popular products off the market place. On September 27th, The Daily Tar Heel agreed with the FDA’s threats to ban Lazy Larry brownie cakes in its editorial. Here is my response from October 4th’s paper. At first glance, one might easily...
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Once again, the government is considering a ban on yet another increasingly popular product made by a small business. But what could the government have possibly missed? Let’s look through the Rolodex of government bans. Everclear: banned. Four Loko: banned. Flavored cigarettes: banned. Synthetic cannabis*: banned. Trans Fats*: banned. Enter the new grave threat...
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The UNC-CH College Libertarians are pleased to announce our new collection of books dedicated to the study of freedom and liberty. Our library features an array of authors covering timely subjects from civil liberties to economic freedom to classical liberal philosophy. If you are a devout libertarian, libertarian sympathizer or someone merely interested in...
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